Project /2025
Flatcap
A color system for long hours in front of a screen, and the adaptations for the tools I use every day.
Design and maintenance
What it is
Flatcap is a dark, calm theme that’s easy on the eyes, inspired by Nord. It started as an editor color scheme and grew into a system: twenty colors in four families, with usage rules, and an adaptation for each application.
Inspired by the Nord theme.
What it does
- Twenty colors in four families: backgrounds, text, action blues and status accents.
- Adaptations for VS Code, Obsidian, Windows Terminal, Firefox and FreshRSS.
- Syntax highlighting for Go, JavaScript, PHP, Rust and more.
- Published as an extension on the VS Code Marketplace and on Firefox Add-ons.
The palette
Deep Twilight
- #121418
- #191c22
- #2e3440
- #3b4252
- #484f5c
Dawnlight
- #6a7280
- #b2b6bf
- #cbced5
- #d8dadf
- #e4e6e9
Ocean Blues
- #5e81ac
- #81a1c1
- #88c0d0
- #8fbcbb
- #95b1b0
Vivid Accents
- #bf616a
- #ebcb8b
- #a3be8c
- #b48ead
- #d08770
What I did
- I started from an idea, a screen that doesn’t tire you after hours of work, and turned it into a system: twenty colors, four families and usage rules.
- I carried the same visual language to five very different applications, from a code editor to a news reader.
- I published the theme on the VS Code Marketplace and on Firefox Add-ons.
- I maintain it in open repositories and keep refining it as I use it.
Images
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Obsidian.
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Windows Terminal.
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Firefox.
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FreshRSS.
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Syntax: JavaScript.
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Syntax: PHP.
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Syntax: Go.
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Syntax: Rust.
